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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dubhthaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Gille Dubhthaigh ‘servant of (Saint) Dubhthach’ (see Duffy 1).
  • Belgian French (Duthie, Duthié) : variant of Dutil, or alternatively a habitational name for someone from Thy in the province of Namur.

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